Why is the West obsessed with Chinese food?

@CrazyMusicLover stuff like lo mein and chow mein.

@basilfawlty89 I'll have to notice it in a restaurant if I end up in one. Isn't orange chicken Chinese too? I had that and it was delicious.

@CrazyMusicLover orange chicken is Americanized Chinese food

@CrazyMusicLover there's too much variety of Chinese food, at least anything that's not Westernized. but if you've had Dim Sum before, then that's 100% Chinese (ok maybe not)

@uikakarotuevegeta I never had that. Last time I had something called "Chinese styled chicken" and it was pretty spicy from black pepper. I don't know if that rooted in any traditional recipe or it was just local invention of the Vietnamese who have this bistro. It was quite good (for a bistro). It's just with these foods it always feels like some generic Asian food (most probably westernized), typically using lots of vegetable in a sauce that most probably contains stuff like soy sauce, rice vinegar, ginger, garlic and idk what else. I rarely see real Chinese names of foods.

@CrazyMusicLover ginger and garlic aren't uniquely Asian, or at least not to me

ok nevermind, ginger is native to Asia